Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barcelona Olympics were the largest ever summer games , with more than 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials . |
| 2 | The English only fire bullets , but in Irish speech any missile to hand can be fired , simply by hurling it . |
| 3 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 4 | One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third . |
| 5 | It was felt that the seven-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) , embracing the three Leeward island states ( Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat , and St Kitts and Nevis ) as well as the four Windwards , was more US-oriented and less capable of performing this new role . |
| 6 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 7 | Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions . |
| 8 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 9 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 10 | Forgetting his appointment with a client , Stevens read on : ‘ It all began in the 1970s when oil prices quadrupled . |
| 11 | At the very least job exhibitions give you a good chance to practise your interviewing technique . |
| 12 | Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’ |
| 13 | We decided to do it as it was the first ever marathon championships for women and because of the sentimental and historical feelings attached to the course . |
| 14 | But from 1 January 1993 the three will join the UK 's fully fledged car company bosses ; the Marcos Mantara , Caterham K-series and Westfield ZEi will be the first ever kit cars to be sold fully built up , thanks to a helpful new bit of bureaucracy : Low Volume Type Approval . |
| 15 | There had been in 1983 and 1984 , two great festivals of athletics : the first ever World Championships in Helsinki and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , respectively . |
| 16 | Of the five IE gene products , Vmw175 ( expressed from gene IE-3 ) is perhaps the most important since its inactivation results in failure to transcribe early and late genes and an apparent over-expression of the IE genes ( 6,7 ) . |
| 17 | At the beginning of the 1990s when art practices are moving away from the collective and political , I hope they will find a way to develop her practice further , in their own right , towards the future . |
| 18 | M. A few measly detective novels . |